Research paper

Confronting risks of mirror life

Katarzyna P. Adamala and colleagues · Science 386, 1351–1353 (2024)

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Researchers assess potential health and ecological risks from hypothetical mirror bacteria and call for caution and wider discussion before creating them.

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